director of iSE. “By sharing our expertise and resources, we hope to export Minnesota solutions to the globe while creating new opportunities here at home.”
The IonE and IREE recently awarded $50,000 to Engineers Without Borders for several projects. The money will help the student organization to advance its mission: To improve the quality of life for disadvantaged communities through economically sustainable and environmentally friendly engineering projects.
On Location
This summer, the IonE’s multimedia producer, Beth Anderson, will travel to Uganda with the Engineers Without Borders, University of Minnesota chapter. With funding from the IonE and IREE, the student-led organization will implement a solar-powered water supply system for Hope Integrated Academy—a vocational college, high school and community resource center in rural Mulobere. Upon completion, the system will provide the entire school and more than 500 villagers with clean drinking water. The project also incorporates a sanitation building design and health education focused on malaria prevention. Anderson will rough it alongside the volunteers and capture footage for a short documentary, slated for release in spring 2010. Watch for a trailer at environment.umn.edu/multimedia this fall. PHOTO: ALI HAUPT
Heroine: Sigurd Olson and others who fought to preserve the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Favorite book: Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion
SPRING/SUMMER 09
DAVID TILMAN Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
TIM SMITH (see iSE highlight on page 4) Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
PETER REICH Forest Ecology
JENNIFER POWERS Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
STEVE POLASKY Applied Economics
KATEY PELICAN (see page 24) Veterinary Population Medicine
MARK PEDELTY Journalism and Mass Communication
KRIS MCNEILL Chemistry
CARISSA SHIVELY SLOTTERBACK Urban and Regional Planning MOMENTUM
RANDALL SINGER Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Hobby: Strives to go sailing whenever the wind calls
Milestone: Spent a year of college traveling the country by bus with the Audubon Expedition Institute
JULIAN MARSHALL Civil Engineering
STEVE MANSON Geography
CLARENCE LEHMAN Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Milestone: New father of twins— a boy and a girl
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